Flash file won't loop

Question

Importing a bit of video into a Director MX 2004 project on a
Mac running 10.4.something with the latest version of QT, I've run
into an odd problem. The check-off box for looping the swf video is
checked, but the video ignores it and quits at the end of the file.
I just want to have a spinning globe appear on the opening screen
and stay there until the user goes to another marker. It should be
stone simple.
I tried downloading the latest patch to take version 10.1 to
ver. 10.1.1, but even when I install them using the Shockwave
installer, it opens as 10.1 again, so there's another problem. The
actual link to the download that will upgrade MX 2004 is a
developer upgrade but I can't find a general upgrade. maybe that's
the problem. Of maybe it's trying to develop on a Mac.
Any ideas out there?
Steve W.

Answer 1

Hi Steve,
Not necessarily. If On2 won't let you add commands, and it
creates an
.swf that has frames, then you could use a behavior on the
Flash sprite
like this:
property thisSprite
property totalFrames
on beginSprite me
thisSprite = me.spriteNum
totalFrames = sprite(thisSprite).member.frameCount
end
on exitFrame me
if sprite(thisSprite)._currentframe <> VOID then
if sprite(thisSprite)._currentframe >= totalFrames then
sprite(thisSprite).gotoAndPlay(1)
end if
end if
end
You can let Director watch your Flash .swf and loop it for
you.
Rob
Rob Dillon
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